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Updated: The Real NRA Enemies List

Last fall the NRA released their “anti-gun” list and last week it went viral. It’s an enemies list with 506 names of people, organizations and media outlets who “have endorsed anti-gun positions.” Besides it being a sad attempt to intimidate those who’ve spoken out against guns or specifically the NRA, it wasn’t a very good list. It wasn’t comprehensive. A list of politicians, but not Mayor Michael Bloomberg? A list of journalists but not Rachel Maddow? Celebrities, but not Eva Longoria?

Really only 506 names?!

The NRA claims to have 4 million members. And even if we accept that those numbers are correct, that’s only 1.3 percent of the American public. Therefore, there are 98 percent of Americans who are not NRA members (even though 51 percent of Congress gets funding from the NRA).

We made a better (think: bigger) list of those who are, by NRA standards, “anti-gun.” By the current NRA standards you are against the Second Amendment if you are for any regulations on guns (apparently the “well-regulated” part of the Second Amendment doesn’t count). To them, you are anti-gun if you are anti-NRA. So we’ve made a list of public figures and organizations who are for gun safety laws and have dared to challenge the most powerful and well-armed gun manufacturer lobby in the country.

This is a work in progress. If we’ve missed any tell us in the comments. If you’d like to be on our list, go to our Facebook page, list your name and occupation and we’ll gladly add you.